Social and Ecological History of the Pyrenees: State, Market, and Landscape (New Frontiers in Historical Ecology) (Volume 1)

This major work of historical ecology advances the integration of research on environmental and social systems, contributing important lessons for contemporary natural resource policy and management. A diverse, international region, the Pyrenees has been characterized as a quintessential example of rural areas across Europe and North America. The authors use qualitative and quantitative methods from economics, history, anthropology, and ecological science to integrate human agency and ecology across a landscape that moved from agricultural and pastoral production to industrialization, then experienced acute depopulation, and now is becoming a focus of conservation and tourism. The book shows how today's most pressing resource policy challenges are best illuminated by this broad, long-term understanding of humans and landscapes. Contents......Page 6 Introduction: Matching Social and Ecological Chronologies in the Pyrenees ......Page 8 1. The Presence of the Past: A Historical Ecology of Basque Commons and the French State......Page 26 2. Local Places, Global Influences: Pastoralism in Xiberoa and EU Regulation......Page 44 3. Some Lessons from History: Change and Adaptation in the Common Forests of Navarre, 1900–1935......Page 60 4. Social and Environmental Conflicts in the Planning and Management of Natural Resources inthe Aragon’s Pyrenees: The Case of los Valles Occidentales......Page 76 5. Highlands and Lowlands: Political Ecology and Territorial Conflict......Page 92 6. Twenty-first Century Transhumants: Social and Economic Change in the Alta Ribagorça......Page 106 7. Pastoralism and Heritage in the Central Pyrenees: Symbolic Values and Social Conflicts......Page 128 8. Shepherds, Hydroelectric Stations, and Ski Resorts: The Pallars Sobirà Landscape......Page 144 9. Rusticity, Wild Flora and Fauna Patterns, and Identity in a Valley of Cadí (Alt Urgell)......Page 164 10. Tobacco in the Pyrenees? The Ecological Politics of Tobacco in Andorra, a Micro-State in a Global Market......Page 180 11. Localism as Nationalism in the Eastern Pyrenees......Page 196 12. Management of Environment and Landscapes in Mountain Areas: Social Representations, Actors, and Institutions in a Regional Natural Park......Page 212 13. Landscape Management and Evolution: The Montseny Natural Park......Page 236 Index......Page 260 About the Authors......Page 271 This major work of historical ecology significantly advances the integration of research on natural and social systems, contributing important lessons for contemporary resource policy and management.